Janine Jackson (born January 30, 1965 in

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) is the program director of FAIR (

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), and the host and producer of FAIR's syndicated radio show ''

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''—a weekly program of media criticism airing on more than 150 stations around the country. Jackson graduated with a B.A. from

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

and has an M.A. in sociology from the

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. She also attended

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. She became FAIR's research director in 1992. She is a frequent contributor to FAIR's magazine ''

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'', reporting on media coverage of labor and economics, racism in the media, and media regulation. She co-edited ''The FAIR Reader: An'' Extra! ''Review of Press and Politics in the '90s'' (Westview Press). Her articles have appeared in many other publications, including ''

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'' and the

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's ''Solidarity'', and in such books as ''Civil Rights Since 1787'' (NYU Press) and ''Censored 2000'' (Seven Stories Press). Jackson has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the

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. She has appeared on ABC's ''

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'', NBC's '' Geraldo'', and

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's ''Inside Business'', among other outlets. In 1997 she married

Jim Naureckas Jim Naureckas (born 1964 in Libertyville, Illinois) is the editor of ''Extra!'', the magazine of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). He graduated from Stanford University in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He covered the ...

, the editor of ''

''.

References

External links

FAIR: Janine Jackson
official bio and links to
Extra!
' articles
''CounterSpin''

“The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline”
interview on ''

The Laura Flanders Show Laura Flanders (born 5 December 1961) is an English broadcast journalist living in the United States who presents the weekly, long-form interview show ''The Laura Flanders Show''. Flanders has described herself as a "lefty person". The brother ...

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